0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	back with me as ever we have Spikes editor Tom Slater and spiked columnist Ella Wielen
0:08.0	coming up on today's show Heatwave Hysteria
0:11.0	the Tory leadership race and the end of Quiddage.
0:17.0	So temperatures in Britain hit record levels passing 40 degrees Celsius for the first time.
0:26.0	I think it's fair to say there's been a lot of chaos, travel issues, railway lines buckling under the heat, airport tarmac melting, some tragedy as well with fires and things like that in around London.
0:38.0	But Tom, did it really meet the hype, do you think?
0:42.0	Well, how could it? because what was being preached was the
0:43.9	apocalypse effectively it's worth looking back on some of the headlines of
0:48.1	recent days you know talking about this
0:53.3	even young and healthy people are at serious risk and all this and what it was was a spell of unusually hot weather you know the highest on record that's significant that poses
1:02.1	infrastructure problems health problems for certain people, but it's not the
1:07.0	apocalypse and yet every time we end up in this position. I think it just speaks a lot about the climate of fear if you like at the moment
1:13.8	which is the particular issue can't just be something which is something that needs
1:19.3	to be taken seriously in terms of the weather and the climate it's not something that we might need to
1:25.3	think seriously about to make sure that in the future we're better guarded against these things.
1:29.6	It's the end times, it burnishes the narrative and it frog marches us into the proposed solutions to the climate issue which the people talking have favoured all along anyway.
1:40.0	So I think you see a nice in kind of microcosm you see a nice kind of example of how everything is panic all the time now
1:45.3	That's very pronounced in the medium more so than it ever has been and also it always seems to be to the end of trying to push you down a certain avenue of thinking and action and that I think will be very
1:54.5	wide away too.
1:55.7	We had the former chief scientific advisor Sir David King warning of potentially up to 10,000 excess
2:02.0	deaths from this heat wave.
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